cannot exclude id field during import : KeyError: u'id'

am trying to import in admin and already excluded the id field but i get

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/import_export/resources.py", line 434, in import_row
instance, new = self.get_or_init_instance(instance_loader, row)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/import_export/resources.py", line 258, in get_or_init_instance
instance = self.get_instance(instance_loader, row)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/import_export/resources.py", line 252, in get_instance
return instance_loader.get_instance(row)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/import_export/instance_loaders.py", line 31, in get_instance
field = self.resource.fields[key]
KeyError: u'id'

why is it compulsory to include id field i thought it should be autogenerated

[ydaniels]

yes that’s what i did to fix the problem but i think its not necessary to include id field when importing new data, a fix for this in the package would be nice.

[jwzh222]

i’m having the same issue, it seems like the meta class option import_id_fields doesn’t work when you give it a new value. it still using the default one ‘id’.

eventually, i have to change the xls file to add a column ‘id’ in header then import works

class SponsorBlockResource(resources.ModelResource):
  class Meta:
        model = SponsorBlock
        exclude = ('id', )
        import_id_fields = ('name',)
        skip_unchanged = True
        fields = ['name','block_time',]